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| OpEd: Would restructuring save money? |
| By Bennington Banner |
| Published: 07/02/2008 |
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VERMONT - The honors usually paid to corrections employees in the first week of May during "Corrections Employees Week" rang hollow this year to many Vermont corrections employees. Because while America dedicates this week to acknowledging corrections employees for protecting our safety daily in an often dangerous — and thankless — profession, the state and the Vermont Legislature were dishonoring a large number of them by deciding to radically restructure Vermont's very successful prison system. The decision by the state and the Legislature to close the Dale facility in Waterbury, move Dale and Windsor's female populations to the high-security St. Albans facility, relocate St. Albans inmates to other facilities, convert the Windsor facility to a work camp, and rely more on out-of-state, for-profit private prisons to house inmates is being viewed with great skepticism by a majority of the corrections employees who work at these facilities. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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